Elya, Susan Middleton La Madre Goose, illustrated by Juana
Martinez-Neal. PICTURE BOOK. G.P. Putnams (Penguin), 2016. $17.
Elya takes familiar English language nursery rhymes and in
some of them just changes some of the words to Spanish and in others retools
the wordings to make rhymes that make more sense with the Spanish words.
I need to read more books written originally in Spanish for
children. I can only compare this to
other books that integrate English and Spanish, such as Dia de Los Muertos by
Roseanne Thong and Rubia and the Three Osos by Elya herself, each of which is
done more skillfully than this offering.
Elya shines best when she changes up the poems – when she leaves the rhyme
wording more intact, they don’t work very well.
EL (K-3) – OPTIONAL. Cindy,
Library Teacher
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